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" A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to... "
POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD - Page 1
by THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876
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Mind, Modality, Meaning, and Method

Richard M. Martin - 1983 - 248 pages
...application in various directions is a programme worthy of pursuit. A Close Look at Goodman's Symbol Systems "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...delight. The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit." Pope In a previous paper1 an attempt was made to provide a sympathetic rational reconstruction of some...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...34 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes. Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! the honey-comb Sin' they nailed him to the tree. (1....(the follmving 3 poems) 5 But first Elpenor came, our (Fr. II) 35 what affects our hearts Is not the exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye,...
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Poetologische und Moralische Abhandlungen, Autobiographisches

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - 1988 - 480 pages
...Originals gehört, und die doch das Schone daran oft nicht empfunden haben. Hätten sie das, was in der * A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ. Grundsprache in Ansehung des Gedankens, seiner Wendung, seines Ausdrucks, edel, fein, verdeckt, nur...
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The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and ...

Robert Scott Leventhal - 1994 - 372 pages
...make your deductions."4 Alexander Pope (1688—1744) stated in his Essay on Criticism of 1711 that "A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit/ With the same Spirit that its Author writ."5 Locke's second to last phrase - "bring them to a consistency" - and Pope's insistence on the...
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The Anthropological Turn in Literary Studies

Jürgen Schlaeger - 1996 - 336 pages
...'hermeneutics'. Its first principle is expressed by Pope in his Essay on Criticism, when he declares: "A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit / With the same spirit that its author writ."29 What Lamb, speaking of correspondence, calls "my Now" and "your Now" and describes as "this...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where...malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charmed with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correct cold, and regularly low, 24°...
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Studies in Criticism and Aest

Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...contradicts Pope's absolutism. Lines 2 3 3-34 and 255-56 enunciate a truth relativists are apt to insist on: A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ. In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend. The phrase "perfect...
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Samuel Johnson's "general Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth ...

Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...Judge will read each Work of Wit With the same Spirit that its Author writ, Survey the Whole, nor see, slight Faults to find, Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind. (11. 233-36) In the activity and life that he attributes to nature, Pope reflects both the metaphysical...
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Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis

Grant Ian Thrall - 2002 - 274 pages
...way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correctly cold,...
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Handbook of Filter Media

Derek B. Purchas, K Sutherland - 2002 - 606 pages
...Criticism by that earlier bitingly witty author Alexander Pope: The perfect fudge will read each word of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ:...find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind. In reality, a technical book is inevitably and very properly likely to be subjected to critical assessment...
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